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An expert's perspective on the top ten blog posts on CultureUniversity.com from 2018. Follow us for exciting developments in 2019 on workplace culture.

From an exceptional year of shared learning through case examples and stories comes these key insights for creating a remarkable workplace culture! Enjoy and share!

Explore a common language for understanding and changing culture and its impact on your performance and people-centered results. Learn from insights drawn from 40 years of nonprofit advisory excellence, and on-the-spot shared best practices.

Members and leaders of Wisconsin-based Johnsonville Sausage have a bold vision to “be the best company on earth.” This requires that the leading national sausage brand be culturally prepared and poised for aggressive innovation on its way to growing and becoming a $1 billion company. An important step was determining whether the company’s Research and Development subculture would foster innovation and growth while supporting their desired culture famously cultivated in the “Johnsonville Way.”

As the largest health system in Illinois, Advocate’s challenge was to increase and stabilize engagement, focus on culture change, and strengthen relations within a high-profile, semi-autonomous unit that struggled with negative team dynamics, unproductive work relations, and entrenched passive-aggressive behavior.

Dallas, Texas-based architectural firm HKS Architects creates places that enhance the human experience, like the US Bank Stadium, home of the 2018 Super Bowl. After collecting employee satisfaction data for 10 consecutive years, leadership sought to better understand the current culture and the roadblocks that were inhibiting employees from taking the most successful actions.

Kate Evans share's the decisions, approach and performance data through her insightful and personal experiences with SHAPE.

Root Inc Chairman, Jim Haudan, and CEO and Chief Client Fanatic, Rich Berens, reveal the five most common blind spots that thwart leaders and their organizations from attaining higher levels of member engagement and creating real and meaningful strategic and culture change. They outline how to create a thriving organization by focusing on purpose over profits and motivate employees at every level.

Marti Wronski, General Counsel and SVP with the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, shares: “Successful transformation happens when the majority of people in the company have aligned beliefs and when proper leadership mindsets fuel consistent action.”

Angie Zeigler, Vice President of Talent Management at Oshkosh, on the importance of syncing leader and manager development with efforts to understand and evolve the overall culture.

The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) was referenced in the April 5, 2011 issue of The Wall Street Journal.

Silke Zanker and Ricardo Gil from Axialent discuss myths surrounding culture and strategies for change based on 15 years of global culture transformation and their partnership with Human Synergistics.